People know damn well they'll complain if they were FORCIBLY merged onto a server.

"SE why didn't you give us a choice to choose?"

I see absolutely nothing wrong with this format because not only can you choose where to go, you have a full 2 months to decide and transfer.

By the way, in a normal server you lose your guild/lists/items if they're stored on a server database (like in a delivery queue) etc, so I'm really not seeing a problem lol. People say they'll quit because they add an enmity meter and icon to distinguish which mobs aggro.

I personally say feel free to quit if it's so hard to coordinate with your linkshell to choose server 1 - 10 to go to and recreate your linkshell.

Since FFXI's server merges were mentioned, people complained about the way they did that because not only was there zero way to give priorty to someone in terms of name, you were thrown onto a server you tend to not wanted to be or it was a bad choice of 2 servers to merge due to reputation or high population of x region, i.e Titan and Phoenix were heavily Japanese centric servers, so when they merged it caused more problems for the lower NA/EU player base.

With XIV's transfers you're selecting a new server which gives you the choice to go to before they merge the servers, this is actually the best way to handle it because it can determine your status much easier than forcibly merging. People will complain about not being able to keep their name because "BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW I PLAYED MORE THAN THIS PERSON!"

With this setup, guess what? You can. Seriously, the only issue would be if you somehow have no communication with your friends or linkshell mates to coordinate where to go.